BIBLE VERSE

On This Day in:

1547 – Ivan the Terrible was crowned Czar of Russia.

1559 – England's Queen Elizabeth I (Elizabeth Tudor) was crowned in Westminster Abbey.

1572 – The Duke of Norfolk was tried for treason for complicity in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England. He was executed on June 2.

1624 – Many riots occurred in Mexico when it was announced that all churches were to be closed.

1759 – The British Museum opened in London, England. It was later renamed the British Museum of Natural History

1777 – The people of New Connecticut (now the state of Vermont) declared their independence.

1809 – The British defeated the French at the Battle of Corunna, in the Peninsular War.

1844 – The University of Notre Dame received its charter from the state of Indiana.

1863 – 'The Boston Morning Journal' became the first paper in the U.S. to be published on wood pulp paper.

1866 – Mr. Everett Barney patented the metal screw, clamp skate.

1870 – A cartoon by Thomas Nast titled 'A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion' appeared in 'Harper's Weekly.' The cartoon used the donkey to symbolize the Democratic Party for the first time.

1883 – The United States Civil Service Commission was established as the Pendleton Act went into effect.

1896 – The first five-player college basketball game was played at Iowa City, IA.

1892 – 'Triangle' magazine in Springfield, MA, published the rules for a brand new game. The original rules involved attaching a peach baskets to a suspended board. It is now known as basketball.

1899 – Edwin Markham's poem, 'The Man With a Hoe,' was published for the first time.

1900 – The U.S. Senate consented to the Anglo-German treaty of 1899, by which the U.K. renounced rights to the Samoan islands.

1919 – The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited the sale or transportation of alcoholic beverages, was ratified. It was later repealed by the 21st Amendment.

1920 – Prohibition went into effect in the U.S.

1920 – The motion picture 'The Kid' opened.

1936 – The first, all glass, windowless building was completed in Toledo, OH. The building was the new home of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company Laboratory.

1943 – The Pentagon was dedicated as the world's largest office building just outside Washington, DC, in Arlington, VA. The structure covers 34 acres of land and has 17 miles of corridors.

1953 – Harry S Truman became the first U.S. President to use radio and television to give his farewell as he left office.

1955 – The first solar-heated, radiation-cooled house was built by Raymond Bliss in Tucson, AZ.

1967 – The first National Football League Super Bowl was played. The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League. The final score was 35-10.

1973 – U.S. President Nixon announced the suspension of all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam.

1974 – 'Happy Days' premiered on ABC-TV. It would run for 11 seasons, ending in 1984.

1986 – President Reagan signed legislation making Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a national holiday to be celebrated on the third Monday of January.

1987 – Paramount Home Video reported that it would place a commercial at the front of one of its video releases for the first time. It was a 30second Diet Pepsi ad at the beginning of 'Top Gun.'

2001 – Wikipedia was launched.

2003 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Congress had permission to repeatedly extend copyright protection.

2006 – NASA's Stardust space probe mission was completed when it's sample return capsule returned to Earth with comet dust from comet Wild 2.

“Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.”

— 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 (ESV)